The Marching Dead by Lee Battersby

“A stunning debut novel, well-crafted and grotesquely inventive.
With its madcap story, unforgettable characters and fine balance between
humour and pathos, The Corpse-Rat King ticks all the boxes.
Fans of Joe Abercrombie will love this.”
– Juliet Marillier, award-winning author of the Sevenwaters series and Bridei’s Chronicles

“Battersby absolutely nails the narrative style, balancing humour and horror,
fantasy and felony. It’s another quick-moving, well-written story that amuses,
excites, and concludes with some rather deep, and remarkably heavy musings
on the subjects of life, death, and the afterlife – or the lack thereof.”
Bob Milne, Beauty in Ruins

Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored. But now something has stopped the dead from, well, dying.

It’s up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd’s not-dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.

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“With this sequel, Battersby kicked up everything I loved about the first novel by a notch or two – world-building, storytelling, hilarity, and most of all, characters who just made me punch the air over and over again, usually while laughing.”
– Kate Of Mind